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What to expect from Britain's new prime minister, Andy Burnham

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A peaceful transfer of power presided over by the monarch. It's supposed to happen in the United Kingdom every five years or so, but it has been happening much more frequently. Today, Andy Burnham became the seventh British prime minister in a decade, succeeding Keir Starmer, who was ousted by his own Labour Party. Labour is described as 'hemorrhaging support to populists both on the right and the left.' Polls show voters like him; they find him charismatic. Former Energy Minister Ed Miliband moved to foreign secretary; Former Defense Minister John Healey was named chancellor. Burnham 'fired Starmer's Cabinet, but then rehired some of them back in different positions.' Burnham is 'opening a branch of Downing Street up north in Manchester' and pledged to devolve power to 'municipal and regional authorities.'